Posted on February 10, 2025
The top matric achievers who joined the University of Pretoria's Faculty of Law as the 2025 first-year cohort began their higher education journey on February 3, 2025. These top-performing matriculants have selected UP Law to advance their legal study.
Posted on February 07, 2025
The start of the academic year is often an exciting time, full of new beginnings, novel objectives, and bright prospects for intellectual and personal growth. The University of Pretoria (UP)'s incoming first-year law students received an exciting introduction to the Faculty of Law during...
Posted on January 20, 2025
The University of Pretoria's Faculty of Law inducted Academic Associates and Assistant Lecturers at the Moot Court on January 28, 2025. The Dean's Office, in collaboration with Education Innovation, planned the event, which served as an important platform for introducing new academic staff to...
Posted on September 14, 2024
The University of Pretoria's Faculty of Law has consistently been a leader in developing the scholarship of teaching and learning. This vision is centered on the resolve to transform legal education through innovative pedagogies, inclusive curricula, and responsiveness to societal concerns in the...
Posted on September 08, 2023
“No matter who you are, when pursuing a dream, what is important is conviction,” says visually impaired student Thabang Manamela who, with the support of UP’s Disability Unit, has graduated with an LLM in Law and Political Justice.
Posted on May 12, 2023
During the monthly research seminar hosted by the Department of Jurisprudence, the following question was posed: "What is the purpose of reframing corporate subjectivity?" ...and how it is of the highest necessity to re-evaluate the lawful bounds of corporate power and the validity of recognising...
Posted on April 12, 2023
This was one of Professor Babatunde Fagbayibo’s arguments as he presented his published paper titled Choral intervention: reimagining international law pedagogy in Africa through music at the Department of Jurisprudence’s second research seminar for 2023.
Posted on March 09, 2023
The Department of Jurisprudence in the Faculty of Law (UP Law) held its first research seminar of the year on the 27th of February 2023. The two-hour long seminar facilitated by Dr le Roux featured research papers by, Odwa Mashwabane and Thabang Manamela both postgraduate students in the...
Posted on July 18, 2022
Tiara Joseph is one of 18 students from 20 South African universities to win this prestigious bursary, part of the legacy of Abe Bailey (1864-1940), who was a Rand mining magnate and a provincial cricketer.
Posted on March 23, 2022
The aim of the bursary is to continue the legacy of the retired Deputy Chief Justice Moseneke by supporting the studies of a new generation of African law students to advance the vision of a liberated, non-racist and non-sexist South Africa and Africa.
Posted on March 23, 2022
The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) congratulates Professor Anton Kok in the Department of Jurisprudence on his inaugural address, titled ‘The Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act 4 of 2000 (South Africa): Equality, Transformation and...
Posted on October 25, 2021
“We aim to create an environment in which transphobic behaviour is not tolerated.” – Deputy Dean of UP Law Prof Charles Maimela during a webinar on advancing trans and gender-diverse inclusivity at universities.
Posted on August 23, 2021
Meet Prof Ntombizozuko Dyani-Mhango, newly appointed Head of the Department of Public Law in the Faculty of Law – and the faculty’s first black woman professor and head of department.
Posted on August 04, 2021
UP's Professor Charles Maimela said the faculty is humbled by Former Deputy Chief Justice Dr Dikgang Moseneke’s generous donation, which includes items from his personal, political and judicial career.
Posted on May 18, 2021
The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) announces with pride and congratulates Professor Joel Modiri on his appointment as the Head of the Department of Jurisprudence from 1 June 2021 for a four-year term.
Posted on April 22, 2021
UP Law’s Professor Zozo Dyani-Mhango in the Department of Jurisprudence at the University of Pretoria (UP) participated in a Power Persective 98.7 FM broadcast on ‘The evolution of the judiciary’ on 7 April 2021.
Posted on April 06, 2021
On Thursday, 25 March 2021, Professor Zozo Dyani-Mhango in the Department of Jurisprudence at the Faculty of Law (UP Law) of the University of Pretoria (UP) participated in the inaugural Round Table Conversation titled ‘The Politics of the Rule of Law’. The Conversation was organised...
Posted on March 07, 2021
The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) is proud to announce that Professor Joel Modiri, Head of the Department of Jurisprudence, was cited by the Constitutional Court in the recent landmark Constitutional Court judgement King NO v De Jager. The Court’s cited his...
Posted on February 03, 2021
The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) is proud to announce that Professor Zozo Dyani-Mhango in its Department of Jurisprudence has been selected to join the Pan-African Scientific Research Council as an inaugural fellow.
Posted on February 03, 2021
The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) extends hearty congratulations to Dr Lorette Arendse in its Department of Jurisprudence on her selection as a fellow of the University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars (UMAPS) Programme for the 2021/22 term.
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